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No Tendo: A Fusion Tale is a Mega Crossover fanfic by "Kestrel" (AKA Gregg "Metroanime" Sharp, the driving force behind The Bet) and "Kender_SCI". No Tendo revolves around characters from Ranma ½, Sailor Moon and Stargate SG-1, with guest appearances by characters and concepts from many other sources. Originally written Round Robin-style in an episodic Choose Your Own Adventure format on the (currently defunct) Anime Addventure between 2004 and 2013, it has since been cleaned up into a more conventional narrative in forty chapters and reposted on Fanfiction.net.

In a World where Soun Tendo never became a student of Happosai and never met Genma Saotome, Genma still manages to escape the clutches of his evil master. He meets and marries Nodoka, and then takes their young son Ranma on what will be a fateful trip -- but not the one it might have been in another world. Here, Genma meets Souichi Tomoe, and despite the differences between the martial arts master and the physicist, they become fast friends, to the point that Genma affiances young Ranma to Tomoe's toddler daughter Hotaru. Ranma is, of course, not told this. But Genma does inform him that he is to train to protect Hotaru, and to always be there for her.

Although Genma and Ranma go back on the road, they return to the Tomoe home when Souichi's wife dies unexpectedly and stay for an extended period. The visit and their friendship result in changes in Souichi, Genma and Ranma -- Souichi's specialization and interests in physics shift ever-so-slightly; Genma becomes more thoughtful and responsible; and Ranma grows up less arrogant and more focused on his role as a future protector. Eventually their paths part again, but not before a young Hotaru makes a promise to "protect Ranma right back" when he needs it.

As Genma and Ranma continue their training trip, changes continue to cascade, and eventually Tomoe, who has begun investigating the physics -- and potential -- of wormholes finds himself recruited by a secretive branch of the US military -- Stargate Command. And when both Tomoes are kidnapped by the forces of the Gou'ald Apophis, the Saotomes are summoned per Souichi's long-standing written instructions.

And from there, things start getting complicated.

Unfortunately while it's an enjoyable read, No Tendo‍'‍s greatest weakness comes from its episodic and round robin origins. It basically suffers from a Random Events Plot that renders it choppy and prone to abrupt transitions, with unexpected off-screen resolutions of conflicts that may have been built up for many pages, combined with the sudden and essentially whimsical appearance of new crossover elements. Regarding the latter, while in some cases the inclusion is inspired (for example, using elements of Ah! My Goddess to handle the Asgard of Stargate SG-1), these sometimes have a tendency to at least temporarily displace or overwhelm the main thread of the plot, such as it is.

And it doesn't conclude so much as simply stop in mid-story, with every plotline set in motion still in motion. As such it has one of the most unsatisfying ends to be encountered in fan fiction, with not even a hint of a possible resolution in sight. That final page is a complete let-down, especially since so many plotlines were set in motion and effectively abandoned. But until you get there, it's a fun ride.

No Tendo can be read here. As of early 2022, the story in its original "CYOA" format (complete with branching options and alternate plotlines that weren't incorporated into the Fanfiction.net copy) can be read on a static mirror of the Anime Addventure here.

Not to be confused with Nintendo.

As a Mega Crossover fanfic, No Tendo incorporates elements from the following works:

The core works around which this fanfic revolves are:

• Ranma ½
• Sailor Moon
• Stargate SG-1
• Ah! My Goddess
• Full Metal Panic!

The following works provide supporting characters and elements:

• Keith Laumer's BOLO series
• Dominion Tank Police
• Conan the Barbarian
• Xenosaga
• Patlabor
• NCIS
• Neon Genesis Evangelion
• Honor Harrington
• Uchuu Senkan Yamato
• Bubblegum Crisis
• Appleseed
• Fallen
• In-Universe, the BOLO is inspired by Doctor Who when designing human-scale AIs to act as its remotes.

Tropes used in No Tendo include:

• Abnormal Ammo: The special "spirit bullets" created for Mamoru's sniper rifle: depleted-uranium bullets engraved with runes and Japanese sutras.
• Abusing the Kardashev Scale For Fun and Profit: In his battle with the hostile war gynoid T-ELOS in chapter 24, Ranma keeps pushing himself and his techniques to new heights, utilizing and expanding on lessons learned during the six months spent in a higher dimension. When he attempts to draw directly on that higher dimension for the power he needs to defeat T-ELOS, the android's sensors detect what he is doing and it extrapolates that if he is successful he will have sole direct access to power equivalent to a Type III Civilization.
• Adaptation Distillation: As noted in the main text, the original version of No Tendo was created on the Anime Addventure. There it had been created "Choose Your Own Adventure"-style in a series of multiple short installments, each of which had four or five possible plot directions an author might follow. In converting it to a more traditional narrative for posting on Fanfiction.net, co-authors "Kender" and "Kestrel" discarded many alternative storylines which branched off the primary story, and blended the often brief "chapters" into a smoother traditional narrative.
• All Just a Dream: Upon her rescue, Pluto sets up Paris Spears to think her kidnapping and (failed) interrogation by Heru'ur's Jaffa was just a drug-fueled dream.
• Alternate Timeline: Twice over. First, as the introduction establishes, Soun Tendo never trained under Happosai, and thus he and Genma Saotome never met and never arranged an engagement between their children. Instead, Genma met and befriended Souichi Tomoe. The friendship changed both of them for the better, Ranma was engaged to Hotaru Tomoe, and Tomoe changed his academic focus, resulting in him working for Stargate Command instead of becoming a mad scientist under the thrall of an Eldritch Abomination. Second: It's made clear that as far as the plot of Sailor Moon is concerned, this was supposed to be a canon or near-canon timeline -- but somehow Sailor Pluto was unaware of the changes cascading from the Saotome-Tomoe friendship until they got too far for her to undo.
• Anthropomorphic Personification: "chaos", sole inhabitant of a higher-order dimension Ranma is accidentally thrown into, appears to be one of these.
• Antimatter: Can be made and contained thanks to tech shared by the BOLO. And what appears at first to be a simple throwaway detail about the benefits of working with the BOLO turns out to be the weapon that packs the biggest punch against Heru'ur's fleet.
• Area 51: The United States' power armor development and testing program is based here.
• Artificial Intelligence: Numerous examples: The BOLO, Bonaparte, K-9 and the other dogbots, KOS-MOS (both the original program and the gynoidal weapons system she becomes), the Gates of Time, the Senshi's castles...
• Attack Pattern Alpha: When the SAMAS deploy against the Behemoth, they use "Combat Program Apache" and "Attack Formation Zorro".
• Author Existence Failure: Sharp/Kestral speculates that this might be the case with co-author "Kender", who had completely vanished by the time the material from the next-to-last chapter was written.
• Author Tract: For most of the story, every protester is a malicious, self-centered fool, every reporter is hostile and accusing, and every politician is malevolent and power-hungry. It's only in the last fifth of the material that individual examples show up who defy these generalizations -- and not very many of them, at that.
• Badass Bikers: Jupiter's Jaffa basically style themselves as a biker gang in order to fit in on Earth.
• Beware the Nice Ones: Hotaru is sweet, kind, helpful and everyone's favorite little sister. But threaten something or someone she cares about -- especially Ranma -- and she becomes, as Jack O'Neill called her, an Incarnate Goddess of Destruction.
• Big Bad: The Gou'ald.
• Big Brother Is Watching: At least initially, Luna and Artemis are unaware that the Japanese government is not only aware of them, but actively monitoring their "private" conversations with each other.
• The Big Damn Kiss: Hotaru pastes one on Ranma when he wakes up in the hospital after the fight with T-ELOS; it's the first clue he gets that Hotaru likes him "that way".
• Big Freaking Gun: The BOLO mounts a weapon that can one-shot a ha'tak. From the ground.
• Big "What?": Uttered internally by Sailor Pluto when she gates into someplace other than where she was going (a military base) and then gets handed proper identification with an obvious alias based on her real name that allows her to be there. (It was arranged by Urd.)
• Bigger Bad: Galaxia, but she never actually appears. Extensive records of her forces' actions are found on destroyed planets, and there is a lot of concern about the "evil senshi", but the story ends before they become a real threat.
• Bizarre Alien Biology: The Asgard. They're divided into two different subspecies (with a shared ancestor species): The Vanir, who appear to be Human Aliens, and the Aesir, who are The Greys.
• Black Bra and Panties and other Stock Underwear: The "loli-psycho" AI running Titan Castle sets up a "love nest" bedroom for Hotaru, and stocks it with all kinds of lingerie in silk, lace and leather...
• Blind Jump: Somehow, when he detects Hotaru is in danger early in the story, Ranma spontaneously teleports halfway across the galaxy to her -- without using the Stargate.
• Boldly Coming: The Caitians really want to establish, um, "diplomatic" relations with humans.
• Bunny Ears Lawyer: Maybourne's unnamed tech/aide who translates scientist-speak into terms he can understand. Literally so the first time they appear "on screen" -- Maybourne tells them to take off the bunny ears.
• Calling Your Attacks: Played with multiple times.
  • When Sailor Mercury calls hitting a Dark General with pepper spray, "Mercury Pepper Spray Attack", Moon tries "Moon Ally Summoning" (which prompts their military support team to suddenly pop up out of hiding). Mercury then concludes with "Mercury Ally Special Attack! Book'em, Danno!"
  • During the assault on the Dark Kingdom, the pilot of the MADDOX-1 feels left out when he hears the Senshi shouting their attack names, and starts calling his own.
• Catgirl: Urd playing with a Gou'ald sarcophagus results in, among others, cat girl clones of Sam Carter and Janet Frasier.
• Catapult Nightmare: Sam Carter's "Sailor Scientist" dream, fortunately. To make it worse, it was Dream Within a Dream, with two catapult wakings in rapid succession.
• Chekhov's Gun: The sample of buckyball-contained antimatter presented at a meeting by Colonel Maybourne directly foreshadows the use of a similarly-constructed antimatter warhead against Heru'ur.
• Cloning Blues: Urd fiddles with a Gou'ald sarcophagus and uses it to clone Sam Carter and Janet Frasier multiple times. The clone pairs each differ from the originals in different ways (Robot Girls, Catgirls, Magical Girls, etc.) and disappear in a puff of pink smoke if they touch their original.
• Cold Sniper: Once the Senshi's military support identifies him as Tuxedo Mask, they offer Mamoru a really good deal to entice him to sign up with them -- and then train him as a sniper to improve his skills at ranged combat.
• Colony Drop: Heru'ur's forces weaponize four asteroids to use against Earth during their attack. Fortunately only one -- which turns out to be mostly ice -- actually hits. And thanks to clever use of disinformation, it gets dropped on top of a major base of The Trust.
• Color-Coded for Your Convenience: Averted: Sailor Mars objects to the color-coded polar suits provided for the Senshi as part of the attack on the Dark Kingdom -- because it makes them too visible against the snow. Embarrassed military types agree with her.
• Conspicuous CG: In-Universe, the explanation given by the conspiracy theorists for any photograph or video footage that disagrees with their narrative.
• The Conspiracy: "The Trust", who back Senator Kinsey and steal enough tech from SGC and Area 51 to build the Behemoth, among many other things.
• Conspiracy Theorist: It seems every group of protesters that appear in the story are filled with them. One standout is the fellow insisting the space battle going on at that moment against Heru'ur's forces is a hoax just as the antimatter missile deployed against his ha'taks temporarily puts a second sun in the sky.
• Cool Plane: Any of the aircraft enhanced by the Senshi transformation, but the A-10 Venus Bomber seems to get the most screen time.
• Could Say It, But...: Urd shares a lot of information about worlds SGC might want to check out in the guise of listing the things she's not allowed to share with other species due to ancient treaties and agreements binding the Asgard.
• Curb Stomp Battle: The assault on the Dark Kingdom, given that it involves not only the Inner Senshi, but Sailor Saturn, Ranma and military units from at least three different countries. Sadly, like so many other key moments in the story, the actual victory happens "off-screen" and we only hear about it second-hand, after the fact.
• Cut Himself Shaving: "Major Turner", a participant at a high-level Pentagon meeting about the Senshi who is blatantly hostile and refuses to accept the reality of the situation to the annoyance and irritation of everyone else there. They break for lunch, and after they come back the officer in charge of the meeting announces that Turner won't be returning, because he "was in a little traffic accident" during the break and will be "detained".
• Cyborg: The United States military has a program in progress to provide bionics to veterans who have lost limbs, but it is not yet implemented by the end of the extant material.
• Dead Fic: The Fanfiction.net rewrite/compilation hasn't been touched since 2014.
• Death of the Author: Played for laughs when, in-universe, Hotaru, Shion and others attempt to explain the classic "Duck Season! Rabbit Season!" scene in Rabbit Fire to KOS-MOS as being symbolic of rival forces in the human psyche, with Daffy being chaos and Bugs being rationality.
• Defector From Decadence: Cubic Zirconium, a yoma who doesn't feel very much loyalty to the Dark Kingdom or other yoma, who has no problems with being captured and held, and is perfectly happy to tell the humans anything they want to know.
• The Ditz:
  • Usagi Tsukino comes across very strongly as a complete idiot at first.
  • But nowhere nearly as much as Paris Spears does.
• Don't Fear the Reaper: When members of Stargate Command see a painting of Hotaru transformed into Sailor Saturn, in the midst of wreaking destruction yet somehow appearing gentle and beckoning, they name it "Don't Fear the Reaper".
• Dream Within a Dream: Sam's "Sailor Scientist" nightmare is two levels deep; she abruptly wakes from the main dream to what she thinks is the real world, but it turns out to be another dream, from which she also abruptly awakes.
• Emotion Eater: Cubic Zirconium, who describes herself as the yoma equivalent of a vegetarian: she doesn't eat Life Energy, but prefers to consume lust (which she admits isn't as nutritious, but she prefers the "taste"). In exchange for her help, she's allowed to regularly "dine" in the boys' locker room of a local high school, which not coincidentally has resulted in a notable improvement in boys' academic performance there.
• Exactly What It Says on the Tin: The divergence point of this Alternate Timeline is Soun Tendo not becoming a student of Happosai and never meeting Genma Saotome.
• Exposition Party: Chapter 13, when with Belldandy's help the various government forces and experts assemble Earth's true history and explain it to Sailor Moon.
• First Contact: A repeated element. SG-1 and later teams meet Bonaparte, the BOLO, the Cimmerians, the Asgard... It seems like a new first contact happens every couple weeks.
• The Force Is Strong with This One: From the first, Genma is aware that the infant Hotaru possesses a fearsomely huge chi.
• A Form You Are Comfortable With: The Vanir admit that their human appearance is just this. They are actually closer to Energy Beings than wholly physical creatures.
• Friendly Fireproof: Averted when Sailor Jupiter picks the wrong target in a faceoff between Sousuke Sagara and Gauron and takes Sousuke out very neatly.
• Frivolous Lawsuit: The utter storm of lawsuits filed against the defenders of Earth for defending Earth by everyone and his dog are very much this, at least from the point of view of the reader.
• Fun T-Shirt: When Minako first meets him, Souichi Tomoe is wearing a T-shirt that reads "Mad Scientists Local Union #349".
• Gainaxing: Teenaged!female!Jack O'Neill. Sam Carter points out just how much she "bobbles".
• Gender Bender: Thanks to an accident involving an aborted Jaffa conversion, a Goa'uld sarcophagus, and Sailor Venus, Jack O'Neill is (temporarily) turned into a teenage girl. And gets periodically re-turned into one whenever hit with too much energy in one form or another.
  • Averted for Ranma, between the altered timeline and the fact that he's only 15 during the majority of the story.
• Genius Ditz: Minako/Sailor Venus turns out to be a natural with aircraft. Normally as averse to studying as Usagi, she devours technical manuals for planes, and in her very first flight was able to "feel" how the aircraft would respond to her, letting her do all manner of advanced maneuvers.
• God Guise: Inverted. The former Jaffa and slaves of Apophis insist on worshiping Hotaru as a goddess and refuse to accept her denials that she's any such thing. (The fact that as Sailor Saturn she can singlehandedly shred a pyramid ship works against her here.)
• A God I Am Not: Hotaru's futile protests that she's not a goddess and shouldn't be worshipped.
• Government Agency of Fiction: "The Bureau", which seems to be a multinational organization supporting the Senshi, but which has only explicitly appeared once.
• The Greys: The Aesir.
• Gun Nut: Leona Ozaki.
• Heel Face Turn: Colonel Maybourne goes from the antagonist he is in canon SG-1 to something of an ally when he learns of the potential for Powered Armor and Humongous Mecha (his boyhood dreams) in what SGC is learning from "Bonaparte" and later the BOLO.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: In a passage written several years before Britney Spears was placed under a conservatorship, Pluto suggests Paris Spears needs to be in "protective custody".
• Hollywood Hacking: Apparently how a small group of intelligence agents was able to feed Heru'ur's forces bad info for targeting their asteroid weapons.
• Honest John's Dealership: There apparently exists an establishment in Gou'ald space called "Crazy Akhmed's Used Spacecraft".
• Horsemen of the Apocalypse: Jupiter's Jaffa rename themselves for the Four Horsemen and then some...
• Human Aliens: The Vanir. Subverted, as they turn out to be something close to Energy Beings taking A Form You Are Comfortable With.
  • The inhabitants of the moon during the Silver Millennium. Long before it became Canon, this fic described them as settlers from outside the Solar System.
• Humongous Mecha: Outside of the BOLO, which is essentially a mountain-sized tank, there are no real mecha ready for deployment. Yet. Colonel Maybourne is working on it, though.
  • The Behemoth, built by The Trust, which was prematurely (but effectively) deployed against Washington, DC.
• I Just Want to Be Normal: Akane apparently felt being a local karate champion made her a "nail that stuck up" and sometimes wished for a more normal life. Then she witnessed Ranma and Hotaru fighting Happosai, after which she seems to have realized that she's far closer to Normal than she thought, and what she thought of as an unwelcome weirdness in her life is actually welcome normality.
• Immune to Bullets: Yoma, although strictly speaking they're not literally immune, they just regenerate from the damage very quickly. Fortunately, they're far more vulnerable to white phosphorus, flamethrowers and zat'nik'tels; the governments involved in supporting Sailor Moon and the Senshi in Japan are aware of this and equip their forces accordingly.
• Impossibly Cool Weapon: Ranma's monomolecular-edged kukris.
• Insistent Terminology: "I ain't a ninja, I just know ninja-stuff."
• Interspecies Romance: The Caitians, a felinoid species discovered by SG-X2, are really interested in trying sex with humans.
• Invisible to Normals: Massively averted. The Japanese government notices Sailor Moon as soon as she begins her hero career. The British know about Sailor V, and quickly figure out her civilian identity before offering her training and support. And because of the manner of her "activation" there was never any reason (or opportunity) for Hotaru to hide what she could do.
• "It" Is Dehumanizing: Explicitly averted by Bonaparte the first time he sees the crude prototype AI code for KOS-MOS -- he explicitly calls KOS-MOS "her" (to the confusion of her programmer) and notes that "She's going to be a cutie".
  • Bonaparte himself identifies as male from the moment he starts communicating with the Tau'ri.
• Kill It Through Its Stomach: Despite the lack of an actual stomach, this is how Ranma defeats the giant crab mecha on the factory world.
• Kill It with Fire: The government forces supporting Sailor Moon (and later the rest of the Japan-based Senshi as well) learn quickly that white phosphorus and flamethrowers are far more effective against yoma than bullets.
• Kukris Are Kool: Ranma acquires a pair of kukri-styled knives made of a buckyball-carbon-ceramic material that can block staff blasts, slice through steel, and also act as a focus for his vacuum-blade chi attack.
• Latex Space Suit: Hotaru, Ranma, Minako and the children from Refuge get them as "school uniforms" when their school moves into a salvaged spacecraft.
• Left Hanging/No Ending: The conclusion, for lack of a better word, of the story. It doesn't finish so much as just halt abruptly, with no resolution to any of the plot threads in motion. This is attributable, at least in part, to an apparent case of Author Existence Failure on the part of one half of the two-writer team behind the majority of the story.
• Male Pack Mule: Ranma gets recruited by Hotaru and several other women when they decide to introduce KOS-MOS to shopping. Despite doing so in what amounts to a Bronze Age marketplace on a distant planet, Ranma still ends up laden with all manner of purchases.
• Mass Super-Empowering Event: Something happened during the assault on the Dark Kingdom to change a few people, including Sousuke Sagara and Colonel Maybourne.
• Miranda Rights: Averted. When Jadeite Jedite is captured (as an enemy combatant, in Japan), he's told by a Marine, "Since you're an alien monster preying on humans -- you have no rights, you shouldn't remain silent, and anything you say can keep you from being getting severely hurt. You're under arrest."
• Mistaken for Aliens: Happosai, by the JSDF.
• Mistaken for Gay: Makoto thinks Rei is gay after witnessing Melissa Mao (who actually is) teasing her.
• Mutually Fictional: When the mirror-universe version of the SGC tries to locate their universe's counterpart to Souichi Tomoe during Daniel's soujourn there, they only find a reference to a character in an anime.
• Mysterious Protector: Played with when in addition to Tuxedo Mask, a heavily-armed international team of Special Forces operatives shows up to save Sailor Moon's bacon and give her the encouragement she needs to finish off the Monster of the Week, thanks to a Genre Savvy government agency intent on supporting her.
• Named After Somebody Famous: Arthur "Artie" Clarence Clark, high school student.
• Ninja: The convenient explanation everyone who knows better uses to describe Genma and Ranma's more unusual abilities to those who need a fast, detail-free description.
• No Celebrities Were Harmed: "Paris Spears", a vapid, drug-addled pop star pretty much completely disconnected from everything happening in the world that has nothing to do with her fame and personal whims. Heru'ur's Jaffa spies mistake her for the "god" controlling Earth.
• No Ending: The story just stops, with nothing resolved, where one writer basically disappeared and the other gave up.
• No Name Given: Maybourne's "explainer" tech/aide. The story goes out of its way to keep her name unknown, even noting that General Hammond is too far away to read her name tag the one time they're in a meeting together.
• Oblivious to Love: Ranma was never told he was engaged to Hotaru and doesn't seem to realize that she is utterly smitten with him -- at least until she gives him a Big Damn Kiss.
• Operation: Blank: "Operation Weed Removal".
• Paper-Thin Disguise: Not that he actually disguises himself, but Ami sees through Sousuke Sagara's alleged cover as an ordinary high school student in seconds.
• Pardon My Klingon: At one point Thor says to Urd, "You're going to be in serious sizplok over this."
• Petting Zoo People:
  • The original inhabitants of Refuge and several other planets were effectively humanoid dogs.
  • The Caitians, who are felinoids.
• Poke in the Third Eye: Belldandy can see Pluto watching a meeting from the time gates, and to Pluto's panic, invites her to try some tea.
• Power Gives You Wings: As he gets close to accessing chaos' realm as a power source during his fight with T-ELOS, Ranma begins manifesting wings of blue energy.
• Privateer: After the battle with Heru'ur's fleet, the Diamond Kingdom wants a presence in space but can't afford to build a proper ship. So they authorize a Privateer to operate on their behalf instead, a woman named Bangladesh Dupree.
• Random Events Plot: Probably the inevitable result of the venue where it was written plus the multiple authors. Plot lines start, get moving, and then are inexplicably abandoned to switch to something else (more) interesting.
• Reassigned to Antarctica: Senator Kinsey arranges this for Captain Honor Harrington as revenge for making him look like an idiot at a congressional hearing. However, there was a Reality Subtext to this: the author discovered that David Weber had a Fanwork Ban and wrote Harrington out of the story to comply with it.
• Relationship Upgrade: Hotaru initiates one with Ranma in the aftermath of his fight with T-ELOS.
• Robot Dog: The BOLO starts manufacturing AI dog robots in job lots to act as liaisons with the various human groups (and as the occasionaly infiltrator). One makes a Heroic Sacrifice, and others become prominent enough as characters to get names and expanded characterization.
• Robot Girl: Several examples:
  • KOS-MOS. Played with in that while KOS-MOS acknowledges that she has a female form, she doesn't seem to have enough personality to act feminine.
  • The pair of robot "clones" of Sam Carter and Janet Frasier created by accident by Urd fiddling with a Gou'ald sarcophagus.
• Scandalgate: Senator Kinsey tries to get a good scandal going over the Behemoth attack on Washington DC under the name "RoboGate"... only for Heru'ur's attack to overshadow it.
• Self-Destruct Mechanism: The BOLO's robot dogs are each equipped with one. At least two make use of it in the course of the extant material.
• Shrouded in Myth: The Goddess Hotaru and her First Prime Ranma, among the Jaffa and former slaves of Apophis. It's helped along by the occasional tall tale told by SGC personnel.
• Side Bet: Several get mentioned. For example:
  • A Jaffa on Refuge is part of a pool betting on whether a particular couple get together before local winter.
  • When Hathor is controlling Cheyenne Mountain, there's a pool among the servicemen under her control on who'll get Sam Carter as a "recreational" bonus.
  • SGC and other military personnel were apparently running one on Ranma and Hotaru's first kiss. Sailor Pluto's cover identity as a lieutenant in the USAF wins the pool. Cheater.
• Signature Song: Once she gets the A-10 Venus Bomber, Sailor Venus sings Steppenwolf's "Magic Carpet Ride" pretty much every time she's flying it.
• Starfish Aliens: Encountered by a MALP on a very inhospitable world during one of the first probes from Refuge. They apparently make contact but the plot thread gets dropped.
• Swiss Army Weapon:
  • KOS-MOS can turn one or both of her arms into a variety of melee and ranged weapons.
  • She suggests that Ranma acquire one for his Utility Belt -- a shapeshifting device that could be any number of tools and/or hand weapons.
• Tank Goodness: There's Bonaparte, the AI tank with the voice and personality of a small boy. And then there's the BOLO, a mountain-sized AI tank with anti-spacecraft weaponry and a personality reminiscent of a Samurai.
• Technology Levels: Urd gives a little exposition on the Asgard's way of rating societies' social and technological development. She then footnotes it with a comment about how it's an approximation and how different cultures can reach different things at each level.
• Theme Naming:
  • The mineral theme naming for the denizens of the Dark Kingdom from Sailor Moon (with almost everyone having names that end ing "-ite") is extended but also played with when "Excite" and "Dendrite" (and "Cubic Zirconium") appear.
  • Interestingly, all the personnel from Princess Diamond's kingdom have rock and gem names.
• Then Let Me Be Evil: Happosai decides to up his game to be worthy of the attentions of the Senshi.
• They Would Cut You Up: Minako being Minako, she does not seem to have paid too much attention to what she was agreeing to when "recruited" by the military, and when she arrives at the military base seems to half-expect to be experimented on. Fortunately she's wrong.
• "Three Laws"-Compliant: Averted by the robot dogs (and presumably other creations of the BOLO), as one takes pains to explain to a couple of idiots who've stolen him and try to order him to let them disassemble him. He manages his own disassembly -- and theirs.
• Tokyo Is the Center of the Universe: Explicitly invoked by Maybourne when he insists on a Tokyo-based simulation for testing mecha in, because it's "traditional".
  • Played with in Akane Tendo's first scene as she marvels at the recent changes in the world, but is grateful nothing major seems to happen in Tokyo. This is, of course, Tempting Fate.
• Too Kinky to Torture: Paris Spears thoroughly enjoys her interrogation by Heru'ur's Jaffa.
• Transformation Sequence: Played with.
  • Hotaru doesn't seem to have one. She simply becomes Sailor Saturn with no fancy light show, but requires a perceived danger or threat to do so -- she can't do it "at will", something she discusses with Minako when they first meet.
  • Sailor Moon and Sailor Venus do, and with the secret and subtle encouragement of her government sponsors, Minako discovers she can include an entire aircraft in her transformation, as "equipment". In this she is no doubt inspired by the earlier discovery that the Glock pistol Hotaru carries off-planet went through her transformations with her and came out with purple highlights and a Saturn symbol on it.
• Undead Tax Exemption: At first Pluto seems to have gotten one with the USAF cover identity Urd arranges for her, but there were just enough holes in it to confirm other suspicions General Hammond had already had about her. He correctly guesses that she's Pluto, though, and offers her a superior fake ID with better backstopping.
• Unobtainium: One general unironically asks if the AI Factory on Xeno can make "superunobtainium". The Factory and the humans working with it all seem to agree that he's an idiot.
• Unwanted False Faith: The worship Hotaru receives from the former Jaffa and slaves of Apophis. Perversely, her protests that she isn't a goddess and her requests that they not worship her, combined with her sweet and kind nature, make them worship her all the more.
• Utility Belt: Inspired by Batman comics, Ranma begins making himself one.
• Vegetarian Vampire: Cubic Zirconium, an affable yoma who prefers to consume lust, not life energy.
• Walking Techbane: The general opinion of Minako at SGC, which makes her affinity for and talent with aircraft a massive surprise for them.
• What Does This Button Do?: Minako mutters this while looking for an "off" switch on the sarcophagus Urd modified to clone Sam and Janet.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: In-Universe: For some reason, Stargate Command completely forgets that Ranma spontaneously teleported halfway across the galaxy to Hotaru without using the Stargate and never follows up on how he managed it.
• What Measure Is a Non-Human?: Official recognition of personhood for robots and AIs is a condition of the BOLO's long-term cooperation with the Tau'ri.
• Written Sound Effect: "beep beep CHIUUUUUUU!", used almost universally instead of saying that someone fired a zat'nik'tel.
• Year Inside, Hour Outside: Ranma is caught in a realm on the other side of a time-space rift for six hours by the clocks of the people looking for him. He experienced six months or more, almost all of it training under an Anthropomorphic Personification.
• You Kill It, You Bought It: Sailor Jupiter comes out of the space battle with a tel'tak and a dozen Jaffa pledged to her personal service.